No More Three-Legged Lobos

No More Three-Legged Lobos

Steel-jawed traps, once commonly used by fur-trappers throughout the
majority of the Mexican wolf recovery area in New Mexico and Arizona, have
been banned.

At WildEarth Guardians we’re celebrating because wolves will have a better
future on 3.1 million acres of the Gila National Forest, where these cruel traps
are now prohibited.

At the instigation and urging of WildEarth Guardians, the New Mexico Game
Commission extended a ban on trapping which will spare the remaining 42 lobos
that still live in the wilds of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern
Arizona.

Sadly this victory didn’t come soon enough for the alpha female of the Middle
Fork Pack whose paw was so damaged in a steel leg-hold trap that her leg had to
be amputated. Today she roams the wilds of the Southwest on three legs, teaching
her pups how to survive and thrive.

WildEarth Guardians applauds the New Mexico Game Commission for enacting the
decree, ordered by Governor Richardson in July, and taking the necessary steps
to protect endangered Southwestern lobos.

WildEarth Guardians celebrates this historic success for wolves! But more
work remains to be done to further secure habitat for these charismatic native
carnivores.

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